Why Everyone Should Not Learn To Code

package · 2022-04-22T23:21:41+00:00

Not everyone, not even the majority of people, have the mental capacity for coding and the vast majority of those that do don’t have any interest in it. Like every other field, there’s no need to encourage people to pursue it as it will naturally attract those that want to.

That said, I knew a guy in college who had been coding since middle school and turned in a final project with over 200 “if else” statements in a row because he couldn’t wrap his head around boolean logic. Now he works at SpaceX.

platonic1 · 2022-04-23T10:49:14+00:00

There's not enough talent to make the innovative CRUD applications of the future. Not even hiring H1B elite programmers are enough. We need to scout out talent, savant children who bleed in binary digits instead of pus whenever they pinch their pimples.

AntiSemit · 2022-04-23T12:15:14+00:00

Coding Is Hard

No.

Coding is pathetically easy. Just use the algorithm with the absolute lowest algorithm complexity, which is pathetically easy to derive 100% of the time. Even if you fuck up, guess what: you aren't writing high-end code 99% of the time, otherwise you would have done your research and not fuck up.

Even a 40 IQ Mizrahi Nigger can do it

Evola · 2022-04-24T05:45:04+00:00

It's always good to learn different languages if you have the capacity because it gives you different perspectives on how to handle logic and concepts.

SoCo · 2022-04-24T06:01:56+00:00

Not everyone should learn to be a mechanic, but everyone should probably learn to change a tire, pump gas safely, and maybe some basic maintenance.

...maybe they meant "everyone should learn to code" in a similar context.

platonic1 · 2022-04-24T09:20:27+00:00

The tech billionaires say so because they want to lower wages.

You want to teach critical thinking? Teach philosophical logic in high school. Let students do proofs in high school

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